Growing-up modern : the western state builds third-world schools / / Bruce Fuller

• Autore: Fuller Bruce
• Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2011, ©1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
• Disciplina: 379.68
• Soggetto topico: Education and state - Africa, Southern; Public schools - Africa, Southern; Teachers - Africa, Southern
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Originally published in 1991.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Preface; 1 A Faithful Yet Rocky Romance Between State and School; 2 What Drives the Expansion and Deepening of Mass Schooling?; 3 Winding Up Schools: The State Constructs Teachers' Roles and Tools; 4 Strong States, Strong Teachers?; 5 Choice, Community and the Teaching Craft; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The modern state - First and Third Worlds alike - pushes tirelessly to expand mass education and to deepen the schools' effect upon children. First published in 1991, Growing-Up Modern explores why, how, and with what actual effects state actors so vehemently pursue this dual political agenda.Bruce Fuller first delves into the motivations held by politicians, education bureaucrats and civic elites as they earnestly seek to spread schooling to younger children, older adults and previously disenfranchised groups. Fuller argues that the school provides an institutional stage on which political ac
• Titolo autorizzato: Growing-up modern
• ISBN: 1-136-87108-X; 0-203-83751-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463495203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge library editions. . -Development.